WRC activities are NOT eligible under the following conditions:

• Project activities lower the water, unless the project converts open water to tidal wetlands, or improves the hydrological connection to impounded waters.

• Changes in hydrology do not result in the accumulation or maintenance or SOC stock, noting that:

A) This pertains to projects that intend to sequester carbon through sedimentation and/or vegetation development and,

B) this does not pertain too projects that increase salinity to reduce CH4 emissions through increased salinity to reduce CH4 emissions. Projects that aim to decrease CH4 emissions through increased salinity must account for any changes in SOC stocks.

• Hydrological connectivity of the project area with adjacent areas leads to a significant increase in GHG emissions outside the project area.

• Project activities include the burning oof organic soil.

• Nitrogen fertilser(s), such as chemical fetiliser or manure, are applied inn the project area during the project crediting period.

For RWE project activities, prior too the project start date, the project area MUST meet the following conditions:

A) The area is free of any land use that could be displaced outside the project area, as demonstrated by at least 1 one of the following, where relevant:

• The project area has been abandoned for 2 or ore years prior to the project start date; or

• Use of the project area for commercial purposed (i.e., trade) not profitable as a result of salinity intrusion, market forces, or other factors. In addition, timber harvesting in the baseline scenario within the project area does not occur; or

• Degradation of additional wetlands for new agriculture/aquaculture sites within the country will not occur or is prohibited by enforced law.

OR

B) The area is under a land use that could be displaced outside the project area, although in such case, baseline emissions from this land use must not be accounted for, and where degradation of additional wetlands for new agricultural/aquacultural sites within the country will not occur or is prohibited by enforced law.

OR

C) The area is under a land use that will continue at a similar or greater level of service or production during the project crediting period (e.g., reed or hay harvesting, collection of fuelwood, subsistence harvesting, commercial fishing).

*The project proponent must demonstrate (A), (B), (C) as stated above, based on verifiable information.

Peatland Rewetting

This methodology is applicable to Rewetting Drained Peatland (RDDP_ activities on project areas that meet the VCS definition for peatland.

Tidal Wetland Restoration

Project activities restoring tidal wetlands may include any of the following:

• Creating, restoring and/or managing hydrological conditions

• Altering sediment supply

• Changing salinity characteristics

• Improving water quality

• (Re-)introducing native plant communities

• Improving management practice(s).

• In RWE-ARR project activities, the prescribed burning of herbaceous and shrub aboveground biomass (cover burns) may occur.

Project activities conserving tidal wetlands may include:

• Protecting at-risk wetlands

• Improving water management on drained wetlands

• Maintaining or improving water quality for seagrass meadows

• Recharging sediment to avoid drowning of coastal wetlands

• Creating accommodation space for wetlands migrating with sea-level rise.

Avoiding Unplanned Wetland Degradation (AUWD)

AUWD activities are eligible under the following condition:

Baseline agents of wetland degradation:

(i)Cause an alteration in the hydrology of the project area.

(ii) Have no documented and uncontested legal right to degrade the wetland, and;

(iii) are either residents in the reference region for wetland degradation or immigrants. Under any other condition, this methodology MUST NOT be used.

*This is similar to Avoiding Unplanned Deforestation and/or Degradation (AUDD)- the same principles regarding land use, degradation factors and agents apply.

Avoiding Panned Wetland Degradation (APWD)

APWD activities are eligible under the following condition:

• Conversion of intact or partially altered wetlands to a degraded condition MUST be legally permitted.

*This is similar to Avoiding Planned Deforestation (APD)

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